Journey and The Walking Dead lead BAFTA Games Awards nominations

The 2013 BAFTA nominees for video games are dominated by last year’s bumper crop of indie games, with only Far Cry 3 bucking the trend.

Last year may not have been a classic year for video games in general but it certainly was a banner year for top quality indie titles, and that seems to have been recognised by the list of new BAFTA Games Awards nominees.

Far Cry 3 is the most well liked retail game with six nominations, including for Action, Story, Best Game, and Game Design. But that’s still only one more nomination than for interactive story Dear Esther, which started out as a mod and yet could walk away with awards such as best British Game, Debut Game, and Performer.

It’s hard to argue most of these games don’t deserve the recognition though, and in fact there’s very few titles that weren’t also in our top 20 of 2012 and that of the reader’s top 20. Although we’re not quite sure what Dark Souls is doing in the Strategy category.

Other games likely to do well on the night include Halo 4 with nominations for Action, Artistic Achievement, Audio Achievement and Online Multiplayer. While Borderlands 2 is up for Action, Artistic Achievement, Game Design and Online Multiplayer, and Assassin’s Creed III for Audio Achievement, Online Multiplayer, Original Music, and Performer.

You can see the full list of other nominations below, while the winners, and losers, will be revealed on Tuesday, 5th March at an event hosted for the fifth year running by Dara Ó Briain.

The awards show will be streamed live on Twitch and highlights televised on Challenge (Sky: Ch 125, Freeview: Ch 46, Virgin: Ch 139) on Monday 11 March at 10pm and the evening will also be streamed live on Twitch.